Overview Of Embroidery Design File Types - Bernina Bernette 340 deco User Manual

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Overview of Embroidery Design File Types

File Type Used on...
.ART format artista 200 / artista 730
.EXP Industrial
.EXP+ artista 630/640,
artista 160 - 185
Deco 330/340
Design Transfer and Compatibility
Notes
special embroidery design format carrying not only the stitch coordinates, but it also the
shape of the individual parts for auto-generation of stitches.
Industrial embroidery design format to store sitch by stitch as X/Y coordinates, color
change and jumps. Bernia uses an extended version of this .EXP format.
Bernina extended .EXP embroidery design format based on .EXP with added color
information.
In applications that use USB Stick or ATA Personal Design Card (Windows based) you will
see a second file with the same file name, but the extension .INF.
For artista 630/640 there is even a third file with the extension .BMP.
Caution: To transfer the design completely to the sewing computer both or all three files
must be copied to the design card / USB Stick.
On LinFlash PC cards the stitch coordinates and color information are always stored
together and can only be accessed through the use of special driver and the Reader/
Writer box.